You have to install the entire game because game sizes have gotten too large for the read speed of discs. Load times would be absolutely awful if you didn't install games to the HDD. Loading a level this gen is like loading almost an entire game from last gen, so you need the increased read speed of the HDD. It was either people bitching about this, or people bitching about load times that would be four times longer than they are now. If you are running out of space just delete a game or two that you aren't playing. Its not that hard.
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What's up with disc installations on Xbox One?
- Thread starter Brazil
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It's crap.
The worst part is, if there's a patch, it will install the entire game from the disc, then download the patch. Why the hell couldn't you have done that while the game was installing??
And it doesn't even tell you that it's installing the patch. When I bought FH2, it got to 97% and stayed there for ages. Turns out, it was downloading a 4GB day-one patch, but no indication of that whatsoever.
The worst part is, if there's a patch, it will install the entire game from the disc, then download the patch. Why the hell couldn't you have done that while the game was installing??
And it doesn't even tell you that it's installing the patch. When I bought FH2, it got to 97% and stayed there for ages. Turns out, it was downloading a 4GB day-one patch, but no indication of that whatsoever.
Sorcerer
Member
Maybe I completely misunderstood Phil in the podcast?
Did he mention that the problem lies with the fact that Xbox One was conceived as a system that was meant to be connected to the internet 24/7?
When they reversed that it seems something went wrong/changed with disk installs?
Again I apologize if I misunderstood what I heard.
Did he mention that the problem lies with the fact that Xbox One was conceived as a system that was meant to be connected to the internet 24/7?
When they reversed that it seems something went wrong/changed with disk installs?
Again I apologize if I misunderstood what I heard.
Fredrik
Member
Might not be hard but it's annoying to have to do that, feels like when the 360 had a 20GB HDD :/ Isn't the bluray drive quite fast though? What's the read speed compared to the HDD? Maybe some parts could be on the disc and the stuff that needs to load quickly could be installed, kind of like on PS3?